And he saith, I am not. (Verses John 7:40-53). The Structure of This Text. If it was addressed first to Jewish-Christians (or, just as easily, to Christian-Jews - that is the earl. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Man is morally judged. John Gorney Love this app and will recommend it to others as well. ): Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. Subtitle: Theology Speaker: Dr. Toby B. Holt Broadcaster: First Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/20/2021 Bible: John 3; John 3:1 Length: 36 min. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. John practiced law for 40 years and he now monitors local politics. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. The Meaning of John 3:16 KJV & NIV This is the essence of Christianity and the most quoted scriptures in the bible. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. And they asked him, What then? One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. 1John 5:11 And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. (Ver. Nor could any question be more momentous. Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. Further, if Jesus had made such a statement, He would have contradicted numerous other Bible passages that make it clear that salvation is by faith (John 3:16; John 3:36; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). But there is also a fearful positive contrast. 03 Mar 2023 15:00:59 His life "is hid with Christ in God." Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. I pray that I might live for Him. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. He enjoys addressing civic groups on local government issues and elections. This He does in verses 16-19. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. {n} He that believeth Heb 2:4; Joh 3:15,16, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window). (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Life is in the Son, and He who has the Son has life and there is no condemnation to those that have placed their faith in Him. All rights reserved. (See on [1777]Joh 3:18 and [1778]Joh 5:24).shall not see lifeThe contrast here is striking: The one has already a life that will endure for everthe other not only has it not now, but shall never have itnever see it.abideth on himIt was on Him before, and not being removed in the only possible way, by "believing on the Son," it necessarily remaineth on him! (John 3:31) Referring to Jesus, John declares, "The one who comes from above is above allThe one who comes from heaven is above all" (verse 31). It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. The anger of God for sin. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. 22. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. (John 12:48). The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. (Ver. (Ver. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. How can such have relationship with God? Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. The Father and the Son were at work. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. The Christian here has a foretaste of the world of glory, and enjoys the same kind of felicity, though not the same degree, that he will there. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." But let them beware how they perverted it. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. The divinity of the Son is in this chapter proved as clearly as in 1 John v. 7. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. As there is no way of escaping the wrath of God but by the Lord Jesus Christ, so those who will not believe must go to eternity "as they are," and bear alone and unpitied all that God may choose to inflict as the expression of "his" sense of sin. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. Glory would be displayed in its day. Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. (Comp. This would make all manifest. (John 3:34-36) The price for rejecting the true testimony regarding Jesus. What does this verse really mean? 25-26); (3) John's joy (vss. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Yet, this obe- dience salvation formula is identically repeated in John 3:16. A person does not have to do anything to become lost. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. And that means most of the people in the world are going straight to hell. He also knew that Jesus would increase in honour and influence, for of his government and peace there would be no end, while he himself would be less followed. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Categories . (ver. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Everlasting life could only be had by faith in Him, and might be thus obtained; whereas all those, who believe not in the Son of God, cannot partake of salvation, but the wrath of God for ever rests upon them.Barnes' Notes on the BibleHath everlasting life - Has or is in possession of that which is a recovery from spiritual death, and which will result in eternal life in heaven. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Flesh and world are judged morally. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God used to present His dearly beloved Son to the world. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! For this is the work of God as well asthe command of God to all who are dead in their trespasses and sins: Believe in Him Whom He has sent, believe in Christ's finished work for the forgiveness sins and life everlasting. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Yet thousands choose to remain in this state, and to encounter alone all that is terrible in the wrath of Almighty God, rather than come to Jesus, who has borne their sins in his own body on the tree, and who is willing to bless them with the peace, and purity, and joy of immortal life. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And they haven't even carefully read what John 3:18 itself says. infinite truth! John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. The question really is, whether man would trust God. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. No charge could be remoter from the truth. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. The one who comes from heaven is above all. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. He redeemed us from the curse of the Law, and secured redemption and the forgiveness of sin, for all who would trust in His finished work at Calvary for the salvation of their soul. I can't begin to explain how this app is Optimised Exceptionally Outstanding Because with this app I am able to get better grades in mathematics and others Because this . His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. Commentary on John 3:22-36. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. It is here life begunthe first breathings and pantings of the soul for immortality; yet it is life, though at first feeble and faint, which is eternal in its nature, and which shall be matured in the full and perfect bliss of heaven. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. (John 3:36 KJV). (Verses John 5:17-18). Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Eternal lifeis only received by believing that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners and that salvation is a gracious gift of God. Heavenly Father, thank you that You loved me so much that while I was still under Your wrath and dead in my trespasses and sins, Christ died for me. So it's only really news when a great musician or band puts out a turgid stinker. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. This is confirmed further by John the Baptist's statement in John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not (apeitheo) the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." The word "apeitheo" is understood by all good translators and commentators to mean obedience. Most music is crap. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. One must be born again. Do any believe on His name? Has or is in possession of that which is a recovery from spiritual death, and which will result in eternal life in heaven. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). Footnotes. God cannot require for justification (whether initial or "final") both a faith that works and a faith that does not work or is apart from works. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. The season finale saw two major developments on the "who are the parents of John II" mystery. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
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